Kate’s 2¢: “Chemistry for breakfast: the amazing science of everyday life” by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim; Sarah Pybus

“Chemistry for breakfast: the amazing science of everyday life” by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim; Sarah Pybus

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

   This was an interesting book to read and to think about.  Did it change my mind about eating what I eat or what I put on my skin?  Maybe not, but it was interesting learning about how this and that reacts and the chain-reaction it can set off.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Nguyen-Kim was born in 1987 in Heppenheim, Hesse; her parents are from South Vietnam, her father is also a chemist.[3] She completed the Abitur in 2006 in Hemsbach. She studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] She worked on her doctorate at RWTH Aachen University, Harvard University, and the University of Potsdam; completing it in 2017.[5] She rejected a job offer from BASF to focus on science communication.[4] She is married and has a daughter born in January 2020.[6][7]

   Nguyen-Kim started the YouTube channel The Secret Life Of Scientists in 2015. She began another channel, maiLab (originally named schönschlau), which is funded by German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF and as of September 2020 has over 1 million subscribers, in 2016.[8]

She published popular videos about the COVID-19 pandemic on maiLab which made it into German YouTube trends and reached several million viewers within a short time.[9]

She also contributed a widely noticed commentary on this topic in the German news programme Tagesthemen (ARD)[10] and was invited as an expert in various talk shows.[11]

On German television, Nguyen-Kim presents the science show Quarks [de] (WDR Fernsehen) since 2018, alongside Ralph Caspers [de].[4] With Harald Lesch and Philip Häusser [de] she presents the online video series Terra X Lesch & Co [de].[8]

Since October 2021, she presents a TV show called MAITHINK X – Die Show on ZDFneo.[12]

Her book Komisch, alles chemisch (transl. Weird, all chemical) published in March 2019 has been on the Spiegel bestseller list since November 2019.[7]

Sarah Pybus has been translating since 2007. In 2015 she was awarded first place in the Non-Fiction Translation Competition run by Geisteswissenschaften International/German Book Office New York. Crossing the Sea was her first …

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Chemistry for breakfast: the amazing science of everyday life DB105822

Nguyen-Kim, Mai Thi; Pybus, Sarah Reading time: 5 hours, 36 minutes.

Raechel Wong

Science and Technology

Chemist presents an introduction to chemistry found in our everyday lives using the construct of what happens in the course of a day. Topics include our bodies’ hormones, the ingredients in personal care items, and what makes food delicious. Translated from the original 2019 German edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.

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